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Piping hot details from Rapture's dystopia

Words: Alex Dale, Xbox World 360 UK
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Rapture is split into areas, as is traditional for an FPS - although it’s a lot more freeform than you might expect from a game such as this, with back-tracking to previous areas for essential items always an option, if not a necessity. Each decrepit area gives you further insight into how impractical, flawed and fragile this utopia was right from the get-go, with one area seeing you explore the volcanic vents that fuel the soggy metropolis, while another explains how delicate the balance of life is in Rapture, with a huge oxygen tank tasked with pumping “the good stuff” all around the city on the verge of massive, irreparable contamination.

And there’s a constant cloud of dread hanging over your head, that you’re always underpowered, and the only way to survive is to become one of “them.” With around 50 types of plasmid power-ups available, you’ll begin to realize how your deformed enemies came to be the way they are now. And you’ll have to stop to ask yourself: how many more modifications can you withstand until you become Rapture’s latest victim?


 
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Genre: Shooter
Release date: 24 Aug 2007
Published by: 2K Games
Developed by: 2K Boston
Designer: Ken Levine
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